BEREAVE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Bereave is most often used in the context of death The noun form of bereave is bereavement, referring to a period of mourning or or state of intense grief, especially following the death of a loved one
Bereave - definition of bereave by The Free Dictionary To take a loved one from (a person), especially by death: "Cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved" (Alan Paton) 2 To take something valuable or necessary from (a person or thing): "He was subject to fits, which bereaved him of his senses" (David Hume)
bereave - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (transitive) To deprive of power; prevent (transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive Death bereaved him of his wife The family has been recently bereaved The castaways were bereft of hope (intransitive, rare) To destroy life; cut off
bereave - WordReference. com Dictionary of English to take away from and make sad, esp by death: Illness bereaved them of their mother She was bereaved of her husband (= Death bereaved her of her husband) to deprive cruelly: War bereft us of our home be•reave (bi rēv′), v t , -reaved or -reft, -reav•ing